A Congress Corporator along with six other persons who were arrested by the city police on Sunday night in connection with beating and manhandling of staff of a prominent dhaba of the city, have been sent on 16 days of judicial remand till June 30 this month after they were summoned before a local court here on Tuesday afternoon. The accused were arrested by Juni Indore police on Sunday night on the basis of CCTV footage of the dhaba.
According to Juni Indore TI Pawan Singhal, the accused identified as Congress Corporator Abhay Verma, his brothers Vivek Verma, Anand Verma, Anuj Verma, Pranshu alias Golu Kureel, Narendra Khinchi and Abhishek Sharma had a tiff with an employee of Pishore dhaba located on Sapna Sangeeta road over delay in parcel.
When Congress Corporator Abhay Verma came to know about this, he along with his brothers reached dhaba armed with baseball, canes and attack dhaba proprietor and other staff of dhaba. Enraged over the incident, the dhaba proprietor Raghuveer Singh Sodhi along with large number of Sikh community people reached Juni Indore police station and lodged a complaint against Congress Corporator and his brothers. On the basis of complaint, Juni Indore police registered case Verma and six others. Meanwhile, soon after coming to know about the incident, Verma along with his brothers got themselves admitted in the ICU of a hospital. later, they were arrested by Juni Indore police from the hospital itself, Juni Indore TI said.
Abhay Verma had given order for parcel of dinner from Pishori dhaba. As there was some delay in delivery of parcel, Verma got agitated and rang up the dhaba proprietor and admonished him for delay in delivery. But dhaba proprietor protested this. In retaliation, Verma along with his brothers armed with baseball, lathis went to dhaba and beat up dhaba employees.
Verma a Congress Corporator happens to be nephew of former Congress MP Sajjan Singh Verma.
In the previous municipal council of Indore Municipal Corporation, he was leader of opposition.